Greetings from Abolitionist Education Collective!
Since establishing the organization in early 2025, our collective members have been working to slowly and intentionally bring the vision of our work to life. A little bit about us: Abolitionist Education Collective (AEC) is a resource hub for educators to learn,...
Preparation, Clarity, Vision & Community: How We Meet This Moment & Forge Forward Against Fascism
Leilani DowellJosh VincentWesley MorrisThis interview was conducted at the Blueprint NC/Southern Vision Alliance Convergence in Asheville, NC on November 12, 2025. Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) leaders reflect on how we started this year prepared for this exact...
SVA’s Representation at Regional and National Conferences
Southern Vision Alliance is the largest social justice intermediary in the South. Social justice organizations from Virginia to Texas have attended our annual gatherings and reached out to SVA for fiscal sponsorship, rapid response/seed grants, and other forms of...
People’s Solidarity Hub Celebrates in Community At the Fall Open House
We got so lucky with our open house this past October – our people came and the sun shined. Thank you for joining us, whether in person or in spirit, in “Solidarity Through Time,” where we danced to dynamic beats, ate scrumptious food, and participated in various...
Building Power Across Generations
The SVA and Blueprint Power Building Cohort is underway! We held our kick-off in October, creating a space for the 14 base-building organizations in the cohort to learn about each other and forecast the year ahead. In November, many of the cohort members traveled to...
Building Community Power Through Crisis
This year, the North Carolina Disaster Resilience and Response Network (NCDRRN) proved that survival isn't about waiting for help—it's about showing up for each other. When Tropical Depression Chantal flooded central North Carolina in early July 2025, I was on the...
Listening to Communities, Building Collective Solutions: Our Work with the People’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council (PEJAC)
This year has been a powerful reminder of what happens when communities come together to share their stories, struggles, and solutions. As Director of the NC Disaster Response and Resilience Network, I’ve had the honor of helping lead the work of the People’s...
Our Future Is At Stake – Fortify Movement Building in the South To Forge Our Path to Liberation
To say that it’s been a long and difficult year is an understatement. As this nation speedtracks to a white supremacist anti-immigrant, anti-trans, anti-worker authoritarian police state, we implore you to fund the infrastructure that resources and protects frontline...
A Year of Clarity for the SC Tenants’ Union
There is power, too, in language. By renaming ourselves as the SC Tenants’ Union we are showing our clear commitment to building a tenant class and crystalizing our central work – that of collectivizing our needs to transform our lives and guarantee homes for all of...
Truckers Movement for Justice is Giving Truckers (and the Environment) a Voice
“Truckers Movement for Justice is a vision – is a dream. It’s a dream that drivers who run these roads, who bring nearly every type of goods to your doorstep, will once again rise up, organize, and have a quality of life,” said Billy J. Randel, co-founder and...
